Believe me, it is tough to deal with the social consequences of the appearance of continuous failure. We are social animals; hell is other people. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are social animals; hell is other people.

It certainly takes bravery to remain skeptical; it takes inordinate courage to introspect, to confront oneself, to accept one's limitations — Scientists are seeing more and more evidence that we are specifically designed by mother nature to fool ourselves.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors though never the same error more than onceis more reliable than someone who has never made any.

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.